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- The Industrial Slaughter at the Edge of the State
How a remote peninsula became the center of a massive salmon-canning boom.
- A Child's Fatal Fire at Point Roberts
The second son of Alexander Hahn died after his clothes caught fire while playing with his brother.
- Cougar Crashes a Point Roberts Dance
A celebratory night out for local youth turned into a brush with a mountain lion, resulting in a frantic rescue mission.
- A Packing Company Tries to Buy Point Roberts' Tidelands at $1.25 an Acre
As the Alaska Packing Association angles to lock up a fishing monopoly on cheap public shore, Governor McGraw scrambles for witnesses to prove the tide flats are worth far more than the appraisement.
- The Salmon War at Point Roberts: Lummi Tribe Battles Cannery Giant Over Treaty Fishing Rights
A federal judge is set to decide whether the Alaska Packing Association's fish traps illegally block the salmon run, pitting Indigenous treaty rights against a quarter-million-dollar cannery industry.